Mammalia - Artiodactyla - Bovidae
Alternative spelling: Alcelaphinae
Parent taxon: Antilopinae according to Z. T. Calamari 2021
See also Agnarsson and May-Collado 2008, Gentry 2010, Grubb 2001, Hassanin and Douzery 1999 and Hassanin and Douzery 2003
Sister taxa: Aepycerotini, Antilopini, Caprini, Cephalophini, Etruria, Etruria, Hippotragini, Homoiodorcas, Neotragini, Pantholopini, Parantidorcas, Peleini, Reduncini, Urmiatherium
Subtaxa: Alcelaphina Alcelaphus Awashia Beatragus Connochaetes Damalborea Damaliscina Damaliscus Maremmia Numidocapra Parmularius Rusingoryx Sigmoceros
Ecology: ground dwelling grazer-browser
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Algeria (4 collections), the Congo-Kinshasa (15), Cote D'Ivoire (1), Djibouti (3), Egypt (43), Ethiopia (32), Israel (2), Kenya (111), Libya (3), Morocco (10), Namibia (1), Pakistan (1), Saudi Arabia (2), South Africa (54), Sudan (6), Swaziland (3), Tanzania (43), Zambia (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Congo-Kinshasa (5), Ethiopia (7), India (1), Kenya (9), Malawi (4), South Africa (6)
• Pliocene of Chad (3), Ethiopia (9), India (1), Kenya (15), Malawi (3), Morocco (1), South Africa (7), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (15)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Ethiopia (1), Kenya (3), South Africa (4), Tanzania (3), Uganda (1)
• Miocene of Italy (9), Kenya (3)
Total: 449 collections including 843 occurrences